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A Touch of Sin (2013)

Over the Christmas break I helped my Dad begin his own blog, A Touch of Film, as an outlet for the reams of film reviews that he turns out each month. I’ve reposted his first published review, a semi-collaborative effort between both of us that was written up from our extensive discussions of Jia Zhangke’s direct and exquisitely composed Cannes prize-winner.

Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin is a shockingly bleak and sad tale of ordinary Chinese lives blighted by catastrophe in a rapidly changing modern world, giving the audience a good drubbing and with only a glimmer of hope at the end.